It’s not easy to get excited about Hard Drives in general, but when you’ve got an HDD with an internal SSD in one package, with storage up to 4TB, like the, Seagate 2TB SSHD (ST2000DX001), things do get a little more interesting…

The question is; if you had your Steam collection on a 1TB drive, which drive would you rather have it on? Well the answer to this is simple, the Toshiba Hybrid SSDD, due to the significant performance advantage it has.

It looks like Crucial has a winner on its hands here with the Crucial MX100 256GB SDD. As we have stated in the past SSDs are not generally that exciting, but this one is a little more interesting than some of the others at least, because the MX100 has taught us all a valuable lesson.

So how many of you out there own a laptop, tablet or perhaps a Gaming rig that features a motherboard like the MSI Z87-G45 GAMING? Now you’ve made the decision for a full upgrade and switching to a newer Z97 based system? Not sure what I’m getting at?

Put simply the Kingston M.2 120GB SSD is an extremely impressive piece of kit, proving at least as good as mSATA drives we have seen in the past. Performance is also impeccable, with both the Battlefield 3 and World of Warcraft PCMark 8 tests showing the best performance we have yet seen here at pcG.

I’ve really enjoyed my time with the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB which has performed well and has put my current Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB to shame (but that’s to be expected I guess as technology advances further and there are now no moving parts!).

As 120GB drives are getting cheaper and games are now reaching capacities of 10-20GB+ (id Software’s Rage is a 25GB install!) the 240GB drive is making more sense, especially if you plan to only run one SSD in your machine like I do. By the time you have allocated 20-30GB to the OS…